Word: pieds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Michael Hurd, a 19-year-old sophomore at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, sprang to his feet and hurled his chair through the screen of the television set at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house. His birthday-Sept. 14-had come up No. 1 in the national draft lottery. Harvard Senior Nat Spiller, too nervous to watch the drawing on TV, was playing pingpong in an attempt to calm himself. Returning to his room when the selection was well under way, he looked at a list his roommates had been keeping and slumped into a chair. His birthday had come...
HASLEMERE FESTIVAL (July 18-26). Nestled in the Surrey woodlands 43 miles south of London, this annual event is directed by Recorder Virtuoso Carl Dolmetsch. The festival is famous for its authentic performances of early music on ancient instruments. The pièce de résistance this year is the first modern performance of a Magnificat for four voices by 16th century Belgian Composer Baudoin Hoyoul...
...recent battles over Damansky Island have raised the specter of such an all-out war between the two giant Communist nations, and something like the above scenario must be haunting the generals in Moscow and Peking. Communist China's acting Chief of Mission in Geneva, Pi Hsien-Sheng, summed up China's view of Soviet policy last week by asking: "Yesterday Czechoslovakia, now Chen Pao. Who knows what country tomorrow?" For the moment, both countries have tightly controlled their responses to border clashes, and both have capitalized on the incidents. China is using the battles to spur national...
...spirit is Dennis Warren, 21, a prelaw student at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif. The very antithesis of the stereotype student radical, Warren wears his hair closely cropped, dresses in conservative pinstripe suits and black shoes. As a sophomore, he won two gold medals at the Pi Kappa Delta national debating tournament...
Desperate to get the ball back, Harvard tried an obvious onside kick-and made the recovery. Back rushed Cham-pi; on first down, unable to find anyone to pass to, he scrambled 14 yds. to the Yale 35. A face-mask penalty on the tackle took the ball down to the 20. More important, it stopped the clock. A draw play gained 14 yds., but then Champi lost 2 yds. trying to pass. The clock read 3 sec.; time for only one more play. Back again dropped Champi, frantically dodging tacklers, searching for a receiver. Just as he was about...